BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz on leading crypto’s perpetual playground
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Stephan Lutz is the CEO of BitMEX, the industry’s longest-standing crypto futures exchange, dating all the way back to when BTC was still in diapers.
From his swanky Singapore office, a busy skyline of skyscrapers behind him, he smiles confidently through the camera, rolling his eyes only slightly as I ask about his background. “I’ve told it so many times already,” he groans.
I jokingly suggest we switch to the AI version of him for a moment, or that we cover the topic very briefly, but Stephan isn’t a…
